The woman, named Maria Jaimes from Cedar Creek, Texas, sat down on the toilet in the pitch black, only to find a snake ...

Maria Jaimes was bitten by a rat snake as she sat down to use the toilet in the early hours of the morning, with the bite ...

Maria Jaimes said the reptile was hiding under her toilet seat when she went to the bathroom without the lights on ...

A Texas woman got a fright in the middle of the night when she sat on the toilet, felt something sharp, and realized she was ...

A Texas woman has bravely recalled the moment she received the fright of her life, after being bitten in the leg by a snake ...

Snakes have been known to enter people's Texas homes via vent stacks or through the sewage system--particularly if rodents attract them.

In her seven years of snake catching, Sue Hiatt has never had to retrieve a snake from a toilet cistern, until now.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Central Texas woman is describing something most people only have nightmares about — sitting on her toilet in the middle of the night and being bit by a snake. She’s got ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A Central Texas woman is describing something most people only have nightmares about — sitting on her toilet in the middle of the night and being bitten by a snake. She’s got ...

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The woman, named Maria Jaimes from Cedar Creek, Texas, sat down on the toilet in the pitch black, only to find a snake lurking in her toilet. The snake, which was coiled beneath the seat of the ...

"I felt a little poke on my leg and I said, 'Something happened, my husband left something on the toilet.' So I then turn on the light and I see that there's a snake under my toilet," she told KXAN.